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Zekkyou on 26 April 2014
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Jay70sgamer said:
JWeinCom said:
Losing 1/3 of your market in a period of time where your Sony's marketshare diminished to practically 0 is in no way a success.


So based on your logic ...the playstation 3 is a failure because its predecessors ps1 and ps2 sold over 100,000,000 and the playstation sold 80,000,000+Which is 50 and 20 percent decline in consoles sold for ps3 ...come on it's a success ..any device that brings a profit to your company is a success maybe not as big as a success that nintendo wanted, also you have to take into account tablets,cellphones etc being so big in this generation and for them to sell over 50,000,000 is a great accomplishment..also  it's the software sales that matters most and it has sold a lot of software so yes it's a success ....just saying

The PS3 itself was a success, extra so when considering how well it recovered from its bad start, but when compared to the PS2 it could certainly be considered a disappointment.

Likewise the 3DS selling 50 million (or even 100 million) would be a success in of itself, but a disappointment compared to the DS. Really though, the 3DS's problem isn't hardware sales, it's software >.< Just over 130 million games sold after 3 years and 45 million 3DS's... The 3DS could also be seen as a failure for selling so much less than the DS despite almost no strong competition from Sony, but that's because of the mobile market.

So yes, by comparison to x y z the PS3 and 3DS could both be considered disappointing sales wise, but as products themselves they have done fine.